Thursday, March 31, 2011

In a former post I've installed iceweasel 4 from http://mozilla.debian.net/ ( version 4.0-1~bpo60+1 ).
To upgrade to the version of experimental I've added this line to /etc/apt/sources.list :
deb http://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/debian/ experimental main contrib non-free

Friday, March 25, 2011

FabTabs, is kind of an experimental extension for now that will color your Firefox Tabs in a way you have never seen before. By taking a small screenshot of the website you are currently viewing, and calculating the most commonly used color from that screenshot, it tries to take the 1 essential color from the website and applies it to the tab.

Virtualbox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Read here to get started.
To download go to this page and choose the appropriate package.
After installing the Guest Additions, you can use the Shared Folders Functionality. Make a folder Share in the home directory of your host. When running your Linux guest go to Devices > Shared Folders...( the window running the guest ) click on the icon Add Shared Folder ( Ins ) and navigate to folder Share in your home directory ( host ). Check Make Permanent. Then as root in your guest : mkdir /media/Share and add this line to your /etc/fstab :

In mozilla-2.0 open a terminal and enter make -f client.mk. Once the compile is done, the binaries will be in ../mozilla-2.0/ff-release/dist/bin/. After that cd mozilla-2.0/ff-release && make package. Package will be in : mozilla-2.0/ff-release/dist/ (tar.bz2). In my case : firefox-4.0.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2.

Extracting firefox-4.0.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 will yield a folder firefox which I renamed firefox-4.0rc2 and moved into my home directory. To test I opened a terminal inside this folder and I got this error after the command ./firefox -P ( to create a new profile ) : ./firefox-bin : /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 : version `GLIBCXX_3.4.14` not found ( required by ./libxul.so ).

Whether it is resizing, shrinking, applying shadow or watermark or tag, phatch is perfect tool if you have a lot of photos you want to process.
From their site :Phatch is an user friendly, cross-platform Photo Batch Processor and Exif Renamer with a nice graphical user interface. Phatch handles all popular image formats and can duplicate (sub)folder hierarchies. Phatch can batch resize, rotate, apply shadows, perspective, rounded corners, … and do much more actions in minutes instead of hours or days if you do it manually.
Phatch starts by default with an empty action list, with the logo shown. You start Phatch by adding actions out of a list of predefined functions ( + sign ). The order of the actions is important. If you want to change the order of the actions, you can just drag and drop them as you wish. The last action should always be a Save action. It would make no sense to manipulate images and not to save the result. Your processed images will be found in the location specified in your Save action.

Make a folder in your home directory where all the work gets done : mkdir source && cd source Inside source : mkdir cairo-patches cairo
Move these three patches from above to folder cairo-patches :cairo-respect-fontconfig.patch
06_Xlib-Xcb-Hand-off-EXTEND_PAD-to-XRender.patch
04_lcd_filter.patch